Cartridge belt or bandoleer.



No. 677,680. Y Patented luly 2, |90I.'

' A. MlLLS'. T. C. ORNDORFF.

CARTRIDGE BELT 0R BANDOLEER.

(Application led Jan. i7, 1901.)

(No Modal.)

ANsoN MiLLs, or WASHINGTON, V"nisffrann or COLUMBIA, AND .THOMAS coRwIN oRNDoRrF, or woncnsrne,MASSACHUSETTS.

CARTRIDGEBELT on BANDOLEER.

SPECIFCATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,680, dated July 2, 1901. Application filed January 17, 1901. Serial No. 43,653. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that we, ANsON MILLS, of the United States Army, retired, a resident of Vashington city, in the District of Columbia, and THOMAS GoRwIN ORNDORFF, of the city and county of Worcester, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and use ful Improvement in Cartridge Belts or Ban-4 doleers, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to cartridge-belts or belts for carrying ammunition for smallarms, the same being usually made of a fabric having the thimbles or pockets for the reception of individual cartridges or of clips of cartridges woven in one with the body of the belt, and it has more particular relation to that kind of belt designed to be worn over one shoulderv and diagonally across and around the body and usually known as bandoleer.

The primary design of the invention is to provide a bandoleer which will t the body; and it is our further object to do this in such a way as to furnish a means which may be availed of 'as a support for the carbine, bayonet, canteen, haversack, or other portion of the personal outfit of the wearer.

We will iirst describe in connection with the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification the best way known to us of carrying our improvement into practical eifect and will then point out in the claims thosel features which we believe to be new and of our invention.

In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a view of the bandoleer complete. Fig. 2 is a view of one of the triangular metallic loops by which the two parts or sections of the bandoleer are connected, and Fig. 3 is a section of a portion of the bandoleer on line 3 3, Fig. l.

The bandoleer which is shown in the drawings consists of two sections or parts A, united by metallic loops B. The sections A are of woven fabric,havin g the cartridge-receptacles woven in one with the body of the belt. One section of the belt has individual cartridge thimbles or pockets a, arranged two deep, as described in Letters PatentNo. 507,836, dated October 3l, 1893, and the other section has larger pockets d for the reception of clips of cartridges, as described in Letters Patent N o,

666,687, dated January 29, 1901-; but of course both sections may have pockets of the sameY kind if desired. The two sections are joined together by the metallic loops B, one of which is shown separately in Fig-2. triangular shape, one leg of the triangle being exposed and the other two legs entering and engaging loops c at the ends of the sections A. One of the two legs which thus enter and engage the'loops c is not continuous, but is composed of two short lengths lo, adapted to enter the loop c, which they engage from opposite sides of the loop, the object of this being to permit the two sections of the bandoleer to be readily connected and disconnected, as desired. The loop c, being of fabric, can be bent or crumpled up crosswise of the fabric in order to permit the prongs Z9 to be inserted in or withdrawn from the loop.

The ends of each belt-section A are made into loops c by weaving the same plain or without pockets and then folding them back on themselves and holding them in this p'osition by devices d e, substantially such as described in Letters Patent No. 525,790, of September 11,1894?. The part d is a metallic double hook which is attached to the end of the fabric belt-section A and is adapted to 'engage the body of the belt from opposite edges,- with the hook ends extending between the pockets on the face of the fabric, as shown. The part e is a metallic' sliding clasp which embraces the two plies of the folded end portion of the belt-section and which after the prongs b are inserted in the loop c' is slid up as close as possible to the loop, so as to hold the prongs therein securely.

The lower triangular loop B can beused for holding any' portion of the personal outfit of the soldier, for which purpose it is provided with a depending strip j' of fabric, which is looped or otherwise fastened upon and around the exposed leg of the triangular loop B and extends the length of this leg, so that there shall be no shifting of the strip lengthwise of the leg. To this strip can be secured any portion of the personal outfit or accoutrements of the soldier. We have shown it in the drawings as used for holding the bayonet and bayonet-scabbard, (Remington.) The carbine or riie itself can convenientlyv be They are of IOO suspended from the lower loop B, (for purpose the latter preferably should be made of steel,) thus utilizing the bandoleer, in effeet, as a gun-sling. This strip can be attached to each one ot' the loops B, so that whichever loop is lowermost can be utilized as a support.

What We claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cartridge-bandoleer, composed of beltsections provided with cartridge-receiving pockets, in combination with triangularshaped loops detaohably connected to said sections, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

2. A cartridge-bandoleer composed of beltsections provided with cartridge receiving pockets, and adjustable in length, and triangular -sliaped loops detachably connecting said sections, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

3. A cartridge-bandoleer composed of beltsections provided With cartridge-receiving pockets and plain ends folded back on themselves and provided with fastening devices,

whichL in combination with triangular-shaped connecting metal loops, each having one of its legs composed of two short lengths or prongs b, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

4. A cartridge-bandoleer composed of beltsections provided with cartridge-receiving pockets, triangular-shaped metallic loops detachably connecting said sections, and an attachment secured to the loop or loops to serve as a support for a portion of the equipment or outfit of the wearer, substantially as hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof We have hereunto subscribed our names to the foregoing specification in the presence of four subscribing Witnesses.

ANSON MILLS. i

THOMAS CORWIN ORNDORFF. Witnesses for Mills:

EWELL A. DICK,

EDWIN KING LUNDY. Witnesses for Orndorff:

L. E. HOLDEN,

H. H. LEARY. 

